Category: Editorials
Signs of Summer’s End
All in all, this has been a pretty good summer. The weather has been as close to perfect as we could expect for summer activities. The mornings along our coastline have been pleasantly placid for those of us who row…
Richard Katz
Chelsea has lost a long-time member of our business community with the passing of Richard Katz, who was the proprietor of the legendary Katz’s Bagels for more than 50 years. Katz (pronounced Kates) took over the business in the early…
Our Sox are on Fire!
With all of the excitement of the World Cup, the Tall Ships, and the Revere Beach Sand Castle Festival in the rearview mirror, we were ready to settle in for a relatively-nonchalant second half of the summer season. With the…
Where is Teddy Roosevelt When We Need Him?
The constant cacophony of bumbling babbling from our leaders in Washington these days with regard to the ongoing conflict with Iran brings to mind the wisdom of former President Theodore Roosevelt. On September 1, 1901 — just two weeks before…
The Miracle of a Bairn
No, we are not Scottish. But we are big fans of the hit TV show Outlander, and “bairn,” the Scottish word for a newborn or a young child, has permanently entered our vocabulary. Two weeks ago our family welcomed a…
Guest Op-Ed: Massachusetts’ New Energy Rules will Recognize What Frontline Communities have Long Known
By Roseann Bongiovanni For over ten years, East Boston fought an Eversource substation proposed across from a children’s playground, beside Logan’s jet fuel tanks, on a flood-prone shoreline along Chelsea Creek. Despite overwhelming public opposition, the state approved the facility.…
Enjoy the Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Festival this weekend
Enjoy the Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Festival this weekend The 22nd annual Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival is set for this weekend, Friday-Sunday, July 17–19. This free event once again will feature world-class master sand sculptors, food trucks, live…
Letter to Editor
letters It had been a great World Cup until…
Enjoy the Tall Ships!
The return of the Tall Ships to Boston Harbor this coming weekend will place a spectacular exclamation point to the celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. The international fleet of vessels will arrive in Boston Outer Harbor beginning Thursday and into…